Kekla Magoon
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since Grandpa died, Dally's days are dull and restricted. She's eleven and a half years old, and her exacting single mother is already grooming her to take over the family business. Starved for adventure and release, Dally rescues a mysterious envelope from her mother's clutches, an envelope Grandpa had earmarked for her. The map she finds inside leads straight to an ancient vault, a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment...
2) Prom babies
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt Books and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A multi-generational novel beginning with three teen girls who become pregnant on prom night, and picking up as their three teens head to prom eighteen years later" --
Author
Series
Robyn Hoodlum adventures volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Robyn Loxley plans to sieze the opportunity to rescue her parents from the governor's mansion by competing in the Iron Teen contest. If Robyn scores high enough, she'll be invited to a dinner at the mansion. But performing well in the contest could put her directly in Crown's sights. Can she and her crew of misfit friends pull off such a grand scheme, or are they walking into bigger trouble than they can handle?
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley has seventy-two hours to decide between sacrificing herself to save her parents and friends, or continuing to lead the rebellion to rid Nott City from Ignomus Crown once and for all.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Ketanji Brown Jackson is no stranger to overcoming obstacles. When a high school guidance counselor told her she should set her sights lower than Harvard, she decided to go to Harvard for college and law school. When she became a public defender and saw inequalities in the justice system, she used her legal skills to advocate for people who needed help, but couldn't afford an attorney. Ketanji's path to the Supreme Court was unique: She's the only...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary...
Author
Series
Robyn Hoodlum adventures volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nott City is taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown, and her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley flees for her life and joins a group of children trying to take back what is rightfully theirs.
Author
Series
Blue stars volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When cousins Riley, who has a way with people, and Maya, a tech wizard, move in with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start until they join forces as superheroes to stop their school culture from being threatened by money, power and lies.
9) Light it up
Author
Series
How it went down volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators
A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: a police officer has shot and...
11) How it went down
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After losing his older sister in a car accident, Kermit Sanders knows grief and its all-encompassing shadows. He receives an invitation to meet with the "Minus-One Club," a group of his schoolmates who have all suffered the tragic loss of someone they loved, and banded together as a form of moral support. Kermit's secret crush, Matt-- the only out gay student at school-- is also a part of the group. Matt's positive headstrong approach to life helps...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A picture book portrait of the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, presented by two Coretta Scott King Honor winners, includes coverage of Thurgood Marshall's upbringing in segregated Baltimore, achievements with the NAACP and contributions to landmark equality rulings.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ellis recalls her favorite things as her mother's desire to turn off the machines that have kept Ellis's father alive for two years fill the last four days of her sophomore year with major changes in herself and her relationships.
17) Camo girl
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A poignant novel about a biracial girl living in the suburbs of Las Vegas examines the friendships that grow out of, and despite, her race.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Chicago, thirteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
19) How It Went Down
Author
Language
English
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Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Chester and his classmate Skye, tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission, discover the key to their spy assignment is to stop a heist, but cracking the code could mean finding out things are not always what they seem.